Islamabad: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan’s office has issued instructions for the Ministry of Interior to hand over the supervision of the Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) various departments to their relevant federal ministries and divisions, according to news sources.
For the remaining directorates of the authority, including Human Resource and Finance, the PM’s office has directed the concerned officials to bring them under the control of the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI). These directions were issued by the Institutional Reforms Cell of the PM’s office to improve the CDA’s performance.
Moreover, these recommendations also stated that the CDA should not acquire private land for the sake of development of new sectors and instead should continue to complete its stalled sectors like E-12, I-15, I-14 and I-11 etc – preferably on a public-private partnership (PPP) model. The letter also urged the CDA to give the highest priority to the automation processes.
The CDA was also asked to transfer the collection of taxes like property tax, cesses fee, tolls and user charges to the MCI as under the local government legislature, the latter is the appropriate body to mobilise revenue for offering services in Islamabad.
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